I am sure you would have heard this all before but I shall say it again. I am a new user of perl and would like help defining my hash. I have an input text file containing 11 columns of information that I have initialized. A snippet of the file and my code are shown below.

I know that my columns are initialized because I see the correct information when I print. I am experiencing problems creating a multidimensional hash. Sorry that the syntax is not correct, I did it for simplicities sake,however this is what I would like to hash: % hash1 = Column1 => Column 2. %hash2 = %hash1 => Column3. %hash3 = %hash2 => Column 4.